Rayner Jonathan Rayner & Dobson Julia Dobson 
Mapping Cinematic Norths [EPUB ebook] 
International Interpretations in Film and Television

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. …

This text looks at the film »Shane» (1983) directed by George Stevens, then one of Hollywood»s most successful film-makers. Alan Ladd plays the charismatic outsider who defends a community against …

Perspectives on Place provides an inspiring insight into the territory of landscape photography. Using a range of historic and contemporary examples, Alexander explores the rich and diverse history o …

In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to po …

This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his …

It»s a Gift is Norman Mc Leod»s classic comedy of disasters, in which W.C. Fields plays a general-store proprietor who buys an orange-ranch by mail and transports his family to California. This stu …

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The So …

This text looks at »Titanic», the first film to earn over a billion dollars at the global box-office. This epic film reimagines one of the defining events of the 20th century through the lens of Am …

This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking …

This study places »The Right Stuff» in the historical context of the political history of the Space Race. It explores director Philip Kaufman»s subversive adventurism, his mastery of cinematic for …